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Thanks. Sounds like it ought to work. I should have a free day later
this week to try it out. I was trying to demonstrate a wireless network
for our Club, but we cannot get wideband to the meeting room. Slow was
expected, ugly is ok, works is required.
Myron
Eric wrote:
> "M E Williams" wrote in message
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>>Can someone suggest how to hook a wireless router up to a dial-up
>>connection in an infrastructure configuration? I've done it in an ad hoc
>>network, but need an infrastructure network.
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> Which OS? WinXP (or even Win98 with ICS) shouldn't be difficult -- just
> bridge the computer's NIC to it's modem.
> If you want ICS (yuck!) to do the routing stuff (and DHCP), CAT5 the NIC to
> one of the router's LAN ports. If you want the router to do all the routing
> stiuff (and DHCP), CAT5 the NIC to the router's WAN. Either way should
> work. In fact, I used the latter to get a wireless router talking with a
> dialup (internal PC modem) for a short period before getting broadband. Its
> messy, its slow, its ugly, but it works. :^)
>
> Cheers
> Eric
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